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Hi,
I am wondering how I can submit a Intune Request?
Currently when I want to sync all Devices in one of our Tenants I have to use Powershell > Microsoft.Graph.Intune and Invoke IntuneManagedDeviceSyncDevice...
This is "OK"... But I think it would be great with a button on the Intune Portal to just click "Select all Devices" instead of having to click each one to add it to my list of machines I want to do a bulk action for...
Eg I select "Windows" > Select Devices... I have to manually add each by clicking to do a sync via Portal, so atm I am opening PS to do this..
If there is some other way to do it that I just don´t know about please let me know. :-)
What's the use case for this? Intune already includes functionality that does this automatically when you make any changes. This is throttled or delayed for a variety of reasons, but the same throttling and delays affect you performing this via Graph as well.
Hi Jason,
First of all thanks for getting back to me on my question.
I believe the use-case should not really be needed as its almost already made.. When you are in Intune > Devices > Bulk Device Actions > OS > Windows > Device Action > Sync...
From here I can add machines by clicking 1 by 1 by 1... And then send out a Sync, meaning surely there were already made use-case for why you would want to send out a sync.. Could be attempt to faster sync policy or scripts/packages .. What I am basically looking to request is that instead of having to add each machine to my bulk action, is that I can just choose "Select All" from the portal, instead of having to do it via Powershell.
/Mik
I believe the use-case should not really be needed as its almost already made.
Not really. You asked for how to do something without noting why which is the use case as in many cases, the why is super important. It's like one of your users coming to you and asking you how they can automatically reboot their computer every night. The first question most IT Pros will ask is why as there's probably a better way to handle whatever scenario the user feels they are addressing by rebooting the system. Maybe, maybe not, but that's why having the full story is important.
As noted, in this case, Intune already does exactly what you are asking about automatically so you doing this manually actually has a negative impact on the environment and thus is not something we plan on providing. Thus, the question here, as noted, becomes why are you doing this? What problem are you attempting to address by doing this?
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My use case is faster testing of new deployments, not having to wait. (This is actually requested by customer)
Faster mitigation when a vulnerbility comes up and I want something pushed out immediatly.
Lets go back to when Java log4 vulnerbilties came up, I was pushing out script and Update of some apps on our Old platform, if such a case comes up I am wondering how I can mitigate instantly with Intune. Maybe I am being to eager to do push asap and just have to trust in the process that the sync Will happen..
I am sorry if you are Reading my answers as rude, as I am defintetly not trying to be.
Br Mik
I am sorry if you are Reading my answers as rude, as I am defintetly not trying to be.
All good.
For the scenario, as noted, this already happens automatically and manually attempting to do is going to actually slow things down as it adds load and traffic, however, if you are talking about PowerShell scripts or Win32 Apps on Windows, then initiating a sync has no impact anyway as these are controlled by the IME which has a separate channel for receiving policy that is not connected to the standard policy sync in Intune. From memory, the IME checks for new policy every hour (although I think we tweaked that in some way recently but could be wrong) and there's no way to initiate this from the service side. There are things you can do client-side but that probably won't help.